Societies living in underserved areas face multifactorial problems — energy, water, climate, food, health, education, transportation, social development, economic growth, etc. — that are not amenable to separate single-discipline investigation but require collaboration between many types of expertise. Today, there is a consensus that the solutions of the problems facing people in underserved areas lie…

THE ARCS Summit is an annual Conference by the Xavier Center for Urban Management and Governance, for sharing of research and experience on planning and management of human settlements and urbanization in India. Current understandings of the conditions of cities, towns and peripheries, and their functioning and development processes are very limited and partial, presenting…

Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to large data sets where size, complexity and velocity are beyond the ability of normal computer software and hardware tools. This vast influx of Big Data is being generated by immense velocity, volume and variety through cell phones, social media posts, transaction records, digital recordings, intelligent sensors etc….